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RoyalIndependence500 t1_j768z3i wrote

Trees emit loud pops when it’s very cold outside. I’ve never heard of one exploding, just the loud popping can be surprising.

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Galadrond t1_j798zaa wrote

It happens. Certain kinds of trees are more susceptible to it. Sounds like anything from a gunshot, a loud cracking noise, to popping the cork off a wine bottle. It’s just rare-er in VT.

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RoyalIndependence500 t1_j7aoww5 wrote

I’ve heard it many times. My career was as a field going staff of the Forest Service and I also worked for years in the Adirondacks. You get the weirdest looks chopping up frozen beaver carcasses along the side of the road when your conducting fisher research, but I digress. In decades of research in the Forest year round, I’ve never heard of trees exploding from cold, but I’ve heard the very loud popping. So that’s a new one for me.

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